Hi
I have been doing electrolysis for approximately a year now and it seems to be working ok. however in the last few treatments, I have noticed some hairs under the chin and on the neck which I feel have grown back thicker… my electrologist says this is due to a ‘hormone surge’. is there such a thing or is she just covering up for plucking hairs?!
thanks to anyone who can provide some insight!
You may know the answer better than us. If you have not felt how the hair slides out, your electrologist is right. You must be having a change of vellus to terminal in non-treated follicles.
no she has definately treated this hair…its the only part of my chin I have done as the other hair is barely noticeable…
It could be either one. It could be a treated follicle that ended up breaking off and therefore coming back. It could be that a formerly vellus hair has turned into a terminal hair.
Just because an “area” has been treated does not mean that every hair you will grow in the area has been treated.
When hormones are the cause of hair growth, the woman starts off with a few hairs at two points on their chin. After time, those two points enlarge, eventually meeting in the middle and expanding up the jawline and down towards the throat.
When a woman starts electrolysis as soon as she notices these few hairs, it is quite possible that she is in for many years of treatments. This is simply because the extent of the growth does not happen overnight or even over a year. Hormonal “surges” are quite likely the circulating androgens in your body. Weight gains, stress, or other physiological factors provide androgens that can cause hair growth in women.
Thankyou for that X